• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     FE = 4st Enduro & FC = 4st Cross

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

FE/FC Bought a new left over 18' FE 450

I have a KTM 300xc and was looking for another bike that was street legal to DS and ride fire roads with maybe some light single track thrown in. I tried a KTM 500 excf, and the vibes through the pegs while riding on the street were just too much. I wound up getting a WR250R. I've since been reading that the Husky 450 is the bike to get--much smoother motor. Its tough to get test rides. I'd really appreciate your thoughts on what the 450 is like, especially since it looks like you also have a WR250R. And I sold my 1977 WR360 last fall--stupid decision.

Beautiful bike.
 
KIM750 said:
I have a KTM 300xc and was looking for another bike that was street legal to DS and ride fire roads with maybe some light single track thrown in. I tried a KTM 500 excf, and the vibes through the pegs while riding on the street were just too much. I wound up getting a WR250R. I've since been reading that the Husky 450 is the bike to get--much smoother motor. Its tough to get test rides. I'd really appreciate your thoughts on what the 450 is like, especially since it looks like you also have a WR250R. And I sold my 1977 WR360 last fall--stupid decision.

Beautiful bike.
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It vibrates more than the wr250r at low speeds at higher rpm you don't really notice it. It is geared to high stock, 6th is quite high the bike would probably do 90 easy in 6th, going down a tooth on the countershaft and up 5 teeth on the rear should make it more useable. It pulls good stock though most guys desmog and add a tuner which I plan on also. The maintence is high compared to the wr250, first valve check at 1 hour then about every 30 hours. I have not ridden it much as the weather just now turned nice. It has a KTM engine I'm sure the same as the EXC450.
 
DPete said:
first valve check at 1 hour then about every 30 hours.
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If you keep your air filter clean you shouldn't have any need to touch your valves for thousands of miles.

Check the valves when it gets hard to start.

Everyone should keep in mind that the service schedule in the owner's manual is based on top level professional racing conditions. Granted, if you follow every word of it, you'll never ever have any issues, but you'll also spend a lot of time and money that you really don't need to spend.
 
KIM750 said:
I have a KTM 300xc and was looking for another bike that was street legal to DS and ride fire roads with maybe some light single track thrown in. I tried a KTM 500 excf, and the vibes through the pegs while riding on the street were just too much. I wound up getting a WR250R. I've since been reading that the Husky 450 is the bike to get--much smoother motor. Its tough to get test rides. I'd really appreciate your thoughts on what the 450 is like, especially since it looks like you also have a WR250R. And I sold my 1977 WR360 last fall--stupid decision.

Beautiful bike.
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I have a 2017 FE450 that I've put 243 hours on since I bought in 2017. Can't say enough good things about the bike. Desmogged and remapped it before it was even started, been almost bulletproof besides the slave cylinder seal biting the dust at 200 hours. Easy fix though, got a different spec o-ring and all has been good. I had a 2010 Husaberg FE390 before this bike. The 450 is super smooth and in my opinion, the best all around enduro bike. It is softer off the bottom than the 500/501 and vibrates a little less, making it easier to ride. It still rips and pulls hard all the way to the rev limiter. Super light, great handling, highly recommend it.
 
JonXX said:
If you keep your air filter clean you shouldn't have any need to touch your valves for thousands of miles.

Check the valves when it gets hard to start.

Everyone should keep in mind that the service schedule in the owner's manual is based on top level professional racing conditions. Granted, if you follow every word of it, you'll never ever have any issues, but you'll also spend a lot of time and money that you really don't need to spend.
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I had to re-shim one valve at the first service. Now at 243 hours and the valves haven't budged since. My 2010 Husaberg 390 (similar valve train) was equally bulletproof. Tore that motor down at 400 hours and everything looked brand new still. I'm expecting this 450 to be similar. KTM/Husky really nailed it on these bikes. Zero complaints.
 
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